Applications Development Technology Integration Lead - C12 - Tampa

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

Citi’s Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

The Applications Development Technology Integration Lead is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.
Responsibilities:

• Ability to design, develop components with minimal assistance

• Ability to effectively interact, collaborate with development team

• Ability to effectively communicate development progress to the Project Lead

• Work with developers onshore, offshore and matrix teams to implement a business solution

• Write user/supported documentation  

• Evaluate and adopt new dev tools, libraries, and approaches to improve delivery quality 

• Perform peer code review of project codebase changes 

• Utilize knowledge of applications development procedures and concepts, and basic knowledge of other technical areas to identify and define necessary system enhancements, including using script tools and analyzing/interpreting code

• Apply fundamental knowledge of programming languages for design specifications.

• Analyze applications to identify vulnerabilities and security issues, as well as conduct testing and debugging

• Identify problems, analyze information, and make evaluative judgements to recommend and implement solutions

• Resolve issues by identifying and selecting solutions through the applications of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents

• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.

• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Skills Required:

• Hands-on experience in JAVA, Spring/Spring Boot/Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Web, Spring Data, and SOAP/Restful Services

• Hands-on Knowledge of: Threading, Collections, Exception Handling, JDBC, Java OOD/OOP Concepts, Design Patterns, Message oriented Middleware and SOA Design Patterns, and parsing XML and JSON, delimited files and fixed length files, String matching, parsing, building, working with binary data / byte arrays. 

• Strong experience in SQL (Oracle). PL/SQL programming expertise is preferred. Aurora DB knowledge and hands on experience.

• Experience working with SOA & Micro-services utilizing REST.

• Experience with design and implementations of cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platform clusters is a plus

• Experience working in a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment and familiar with Tekton, Harness, Jenkins, Code Quality, Lightspeed enterprise, bitbucket, etc.

• Knowledge in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards, Coding modularity, Prototypes etc.

• Good hands-on working knowledge in AWS services, namely R53, S3, EKS, Private Link, VPC endpoint and VPC endpoint services, DNS, NLB, ALB, Cloud Watch, SNS, SQS, Transit Gateway, IAM to name a few.

• Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing components

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Experience developing application in Financial Services industry is preferred

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

• Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills

• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.